The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS), which is sporting a 96-cent gain (+0.5%) bringing the stock to $178.61.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) is trading down 28.0 points (-0.2%) at 17,051 as of Friday, Aug 29, 2014, 10:36 a.m. ET. During this time, 44.6 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 297.6 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,454 issues advancing vs. 1,349 declining with 252 unchanged.

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The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS), which is sporting a 96-cent gain (+0.5%) bringing the stock to $178.61. Volume for Goldman Sachs Group currently sits at 546,571 shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 2.4 million shares.

Goldman Sachs Group has a market cap of $78.34 billion and is part of the financial sector and financial services industry. Shares are up 0.2% year-to-date as of Thursday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 1.2%.

TheStreet Ratings rates Goldman Sachs Group as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, attractive valuation levels, growth in earnings per share, increase in net income and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.